Day 596 (Y2/D231): Tried a recipe from La Dolce Vegan
Saturday I tried a recipe from La Dolce Vegan: Spaghetti and Tofu Balls. It's a quite quick and easy recipe, despite the fact that you're making your own tofu balls and sauce. I will admit I cut one corner, in that my jar of tomato sauce wasn't big enough for the recipe, so I instead used a jar of spaghetti sauce that I had (but I chopped up some actual fresh, organic tomatoes into the sauce to make up for it.)
I also didn't have a couple of spices on hand, but i didn't feel the lack of them.
Anyway, the Tofu Balls came out quite well. I made one mistake, in that after I fried them up in the olive oil as directed, I left them sitting in the pan for a while before throwing them into the sauce. I think that allowed them to continue soaking up oil and perhaps get too moist, so they didn't hang together quite as well as I would have liked once in the sauce. They didn't fall completely apart, but they were crumbling off at the edges.
The S.O. stated that he liked these Tofu Balls more than the meatless meatballs I buy at Trader Joes. I think he actually preferred the softer texture to the chewy texture of the meatballs. Bottom line: The recipe is quick, easy, tasty and definitely something to prepare, for example, for a family dinner when you want to serve hearty comfort food that non-veg folks can appreciate and relate to.
Breakfast:
2 Flax Frozen Waffles
1 with Soy Margarine and Lite Syrup
1 with Peanut Butter and Organic Jam
Organic Banana
Lunch:
Organic Grapefruit
Organic Fingerling Potatoes, mashed with Soy Margarine, Tofutti Sour Cream and Nutritional Yeast
Dinner:
Spaghetti and Tofu Balls, made with Whole Wheat Organic Spaghetti and Organic Roasted Garlic Spaghetti Sauce. (Lots of good veggies added per the recipe.)
Vegan Cookie
